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Office Proposes Amendment to Extend Filing Deadline

The Copyright Office is proposing to extend the date by which a
non-interactive, non-subscription service currently making digital transmissions
of sound recordings must file an initial notice of digital transmission with the
Copyright Office. The Office proposes changing the deadline from October 15,
1999, to December 1, 1999. Comments on the proposed extension must be received
by the Copyright Office no later than 15 days after publication of the notice in
the Federal Register. Due to a backlog at the Federal Register, the Office
expects that notice of the proposed extension will be published no later than
Wednesday, November 3, 1999.

Because the Office anticipates that there will not be substantive objections
filed and that the Office will promulgate a final rule extending the deadline to
December 1, services that have commenced making eligible non-subscription
transmissions and that have not yet filed initial notices are encouraged to file
their initial notices prior to promulgation of the final rule and in no event
later than December 1, 1999.

The Copyright Office will send out another NewsNet announcing the citation
for the Federal Register notice when the notice is actually published. In the
meantime, the text of the Federal Register notice is available at the Copyright
Office Website on the homepage under What's
New and at http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/1999/64fr59140.html
(corrected location).

November 1: Due date for comments and Notices of Intention to Participate in
Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel setting rates and terms for digital
performance right in sound recordings and ephemeral recordings (64 FR 52107)

November 5: Due date for comments on amendments and additions to the Copyright
Office's Notice of Current Systems of Records (64 FR 54361)

November 22: Effective date of changes made to the Copyright Office's Current systems of
Records (64 FR 54361)

December 1: Proposed deadline by which a non-interactive,
non-subscription service currently making digital transmissions of sound
recordings must file an initial notice of digital transmission with the
Copyright Office. (Federal Register notice to be published)

December 31: End of
negotiation period for determining rates and terms for digital transmissions
that constitute digital phonorecord deliveries for the period beginning January
1, 2001 (64 FR 38861)

January 18, 2000: Beginning of 45-day precontroversy
discovery period for CARP proceeding on rates and terms for digital
transmissions of sound recordings and ephemeral recordings (64 FR 52107)